TEHRAN (IQNA) – Brenton Tarrant, the man who killed 51 people and injured 40 more during a mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch in March 2019, sacked his lawyer. Lawyer Tony Ellis was preparing to represent convicted murderer Brenton Tarrant at the coroner’s hearing into the deaths but on Wednesday Ellis confirmed Tarrant had dismissed him. Ellis said then that he expected the gunman to file an appeal against his convictions relating to the shootings at Masjid An-Nur and Linwood mosque in Christchurch, which were New Zealand’s worst mass shootings. As well as raising the possibility of an appeal, Ellis objected to the process of the coroner’s inquiry into the mosque deaths, with the prospect that court action might delay the inquests. The next step in the coroner’s inquiry is a hearing in mid-December about its scope.

Source: Stuff November 17, 2021 11:26 UTC